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ARCHITECTURE (more)
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March 3, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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The City of Dreams Pavilion Competition
January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association ofJanuary 20, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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Architects at the end of 2009
Another year is almost over. How did we, architects, do in the last decade? Did we accomplish our objectives? Did we give anything back to the society? Or did we all get sucked up in the “system”? Here is a linkDecember 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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INTERIORS (more)
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Miniature Rooms Company
You might re-call my blog entry – Henry Kupjack’s Miniature Rooms. Here is another one. Robert Off is the owner of Miniature Rooms Company, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rooms are not reproduction of existing rooms. They are the imagination ofSeptember 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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MoodSpace
MoodSpace design and implement visual ambiance using an exclusively patented art form that combines canvas art and computer controlled LED lighting allowing the artwork to subtly change and shift as you view it. All art and design are created byFebruary 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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DMShop Directory
Design Milk, one of my favorite sites, recently launched the DMShop Directory: Where Design is Found. ArkitecTrue is already listed in the directory. If you would like to share your services, or even your blog, with others, don’t forget toJuly 15, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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URBAN DESIGN (more)
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Leave the Alps alone
When you say Switzerland, the first thing that will come to my mind is the Alps, beside the chocolate, watches, and the banks of course! Now here is the bad news…September 28, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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House is an island
Developers have turned a house into an island in China after the owner refused to move out. The villa now stands alone in a 30ft deep man-made pit in Chongqing city, reports Jinbao Daily. The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate CompanyMarch 16, 2007 | 2 comments | View Post
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Not everything stays in Vegas
Fireworks go off seconds before the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. It was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion mega resort complex, Echelon Place. If it isn’tMarch 13, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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TECHNOLOGY (more)
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What’s new in 2008!
Happy New Year everyone! I have started my new year with new innovations in technology. The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place January 7-10, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a record 1.85 million net square feet ofJanuary 13, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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Samsung SS700
Yanko Design recently featured the Samsung SS700, a sexy 7.3-megapixel camera with an LCD display on one side and a built-in kick-stand and lens on the other. When you are done taking photos, you can simply slide the display upAugust 8, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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New Sony Design
“Do what has never been done before. “Always stay one step ahead.” These expressions have underscored our corporate philosophy since the very beginning, and have always represented the backbone of Sony’s design philosophy of “Building high-performance, easy-to-use, beautiful products withJuly 19, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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GREEN DESIGN (more)
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Earth Hour
I am sure most of you already know about the Earth Hour, and have seen Google’s site in black. Today ArkitecTrue encourages everyone to join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turningMarch 29, 2008 | 2 comments | View Post
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The Concrete House
Australian Architects Peter Poulet and Michael Harvey contemplate concrete’s green side with The Concrete House, a free-flowing assembly of gravity-secured precast columns and slabs that the designers call a “commitment to living sustainably”. With renewable energy systems, a green roof, -
The Energy Saving Adapters
The Energy Saving Adapters – EDF – by Gilles Belles not only look good but have some smarts behind them too. The standby mode of the electrical appliances can represent up to 10% of the electric consumption of housing (exceptJuly 5, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
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EVENTS (more)
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Open City Istanbul
Three exhibitions curated by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay in cooperation with the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR “Open City – Designing Coexistence”: Open City Forum – curated with Tim Rieniets Refuge – Critical projects and positions by architects,March 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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From the heart of Europe
You might remember one of my recent posts “Back from a different zone”. There is another change in my life and the time zone changed once again! This time I am writing you from the heart of Europe. Here IApril 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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Events at the Center for Architecture for July 14th – 21st
Monday, 07/14/2008, 5:30–8:00pm Designs for Living: Historic Buildings – Back to the Future Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place The theme Architecture: Designs for Living is intended to represent the broad range of building typologiesJuly 13, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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The Architecture & Design Film Festival
The first film festival celebrating the creative spirit of architecture and design will be held on September 24-27, 2009 in Waitsfield, Vermont during the height of fall colors. An exciting selection of films, including feature-length films, documentaries and shorts will engage the audience with how architects and designers think, work and create. The films profile [...]
September 14, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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Top of the Grossmünster
Climbing first the carved stone staircase and then the wooden steps took me all the way up to one of the Grossmünster’s twin towers. The 360 view from the top was magnificent. The whole Zurich was under your feet. On every turn you would see another landmark such as the Fraumünster, St. Peterskirche, Limmat, Zurich [...]
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Chicago under your feet
Here is another chance to walk on the sky! At 1,353 feet (412 meters), the Skydeck is the highest observatory in Chicago. It is located at the 103rd floor, and it extends 4.3 feet from the building. The view must be breath taking. I do not want to be on it when it is windy. [...]
July 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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Exploring Switzerland 1
Last weekend 2,5 hour train ride took me from Zurich to Lausanne which was my first trip within Switzerland. Lausanne is situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva. It is interesting to see how the architecture, cuisine, and language change from one side of the country to the other. Everything in here is very [...]
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“The Pool” to swim
One of my favorite rides in California is cruising along Pacific Coast Highway, from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It is a one day trip for us because we like to stop, take photos, and enjoy the view. One of these trips we decided to see the famous “Hearst Castle” near San Simeon, CA. The [...]
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Finding an apartment
And the good news… (drum roll) I did find my apartment! OK, it is not the dream apartment I had in mind, but still a good one. Finding an apartment in Switzerland is not an easy task. Why? Switzerland is one of Europe’s smallest countries (133rd in the world). Also, much of the land is [...]
April 26, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post